So Friday morning my mom had her eleventh surgery to remove the polyps on her vocal cords. I don’t think, for her, that smoking has been the cause of her polyps, but I know they’ve probably been what always makes them so bad.
I’m not really sure how long she’s had them either, but I know it’s been all my life. In fact, I don’t actually know what my mother’s true voice sounds like. She just sounds like she always has laryngitis.
This time she was at the point of being 75% closed off, so she wasn’t able to ever really take a full breath.
The surgery isn’t a huge deal. It’s an outpatient thing, but they do put you under. Generally, they use a laser to remove them, but this time they went with a procedure that’s essentially scraping the polyps off, so she’s in a bit more pain. In fact, she’s staying so doped up right now that she hasn’t bothered removing all the medical id tags they strapped to her listing her info, allergies, etc.
They don’t want her to talk for 6 weeks. I don’t think they know my mother very well!! She has two grandbabies, and two children who live an hour and 18 hours away from her. She’ll never make it 6 weeks!! I think she’s still trying to work something out at her job to be temporarily put in a more paperwork-focused area.
It’s a good thing she learned how to send text messages!
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